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July 31, 2026

React Router v8 Learned to Make Upgrades Boring

React Router v8 keeps the framework-mode API familiar and moves v7's future flags into defaults. That restraint matters after an expensive v6-to-v7 migration.

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July 28, 2026

The Best Coding Agent Is the One You Can Keep Using

Grok Build produces useful patches, but its weekly limit changes how I use it. The harness and quota now matter more than the model.

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July 25, 2026

Learning Rust with Claude Code Through Local Hardware Projects

Claude Code lowers the cost of being a Rust beginner. It kept two local-hardware projects moving while I learned the language inside them.

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July 23, 2026

Cloudflare Redirects for Static Blog URL Migrations

I keep changing this blog. One small Cloudflare Worker lets the URLs survive the changes while the site itself stays static.

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May 30, 2026

Thread Claims Interoperability. Your Network Has Three Meshes.

dns-sd exposes what smart home apps hide: Apple, Amazon, and eero each run separate Thread meshes on the same network, and devices on different meshes route through Wi-Fi instead of communicating directly.

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May 27, 2026

Grouping Lights in Home Assistant

How to group color lights in Home Assistant using Helpers — and why the old YAML platform approach stopped working in 2026.5.

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May 19, 2026

Tripsy Now Has a CLI (and an MCP)

Tripsy released an official CLI and MCP server in May 2026. The CLI is the better tool. Everything I documented for the SQLite approach is now unnecessary.

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May 18, 2026

Self-Hosting Papra with Docker Compose on a NAS

Papra is a self-hosted document manager that installs cleanly — except for a silent SQLite permissions failure that breaks registration with no useful error.

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May 15, 2026 Fitbit Air: The Apple Watch I Actually Wear to Bed

Fitbit Air: The Apple Watch I Actually Wear to Bed

I ordered a Google Fitbit Air to track sleep. The Apple Watch stays on the nightstand.

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April 30, 2026

How to Connect Hermes Agent to Home Assistant

Two environment variables and a gateway restart. I said 'turn off all my lights' and they went off two seconds later.

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